Portland Travel Blogs

We had traveled from Seattle to Portland last evening and awoke this morning refreshed and ready to go on a full day of waterfall hunting.  Not that is really a hunt when you know that the Columbia River Gorge is only a few miles away and it has many super falls.   The day began well w…

 (the title of this journal review comes from one of my favourite songs - Reba Mcentire - Fancy, me and Marty always play it really loud and sing along when im in Portland and we played it on the way to the airport to San Diego) I arrived in Portland back from Puerto Vallarta the evening befor…

So, finally we had everyone that we could manage to scrape together for a weekend of nonsensical debauchery.Six of us crammed into a tiny DaeWoo, somehow.  Mandy took us to lunch.  We met up with Lisa.  Let's have a round of mimosas!  Why not?  It's Jullian's birthday and i…

The quick second leg landed us in Portland, Oregon just before 2 in the afternoon.  There wasn’t going to be a long wait here either so we searched for our gate and tried to get comfortable.  But only a short while later they announced a gate change and everyone tried to find their way …

To celebrate much good news, we spent last weekend in Oregon. We started by catching the train Friday night from Seattle to Portland, with a long delay due to a fallen tree on the tracks. We pulled into the city at Union Station, which was opened on Valetine's Day 1896, and is the oldest cont…

General business travel....Spain, Germany, Belgium, France.

I got up around 8:30 and realized that the hotel stopped the free breakfast service at 9am!!  Ant and I hauled butt, dressed up and  went downstairs to get scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes and OJ.  We brought it back to our room and ate there.  The breakfast was ok, a…

I always hate leaving my sister it's strange because when we live close to each other we rarely see on another and when we live together we want to kill each other but when she moves away I hate it. Strange how that works.

My parents own a boat on the Willamette River which runs through the city of Portland, dividing East from West.  Their boat is docked right by where the Portland Blues Festival is set-up.  This means four days of great music, great friends/family and great food.  It's one of the best…

    What can be said bout the Portland Tree Lighting?  A few years back I had stumbled up the Portland Tree Lighting quite by accident.  A friend of mine was visiting Portland with me around the holidays a few years back and we had met up with my friend Angie to show him the s…

2 days in Portland, USA!

Another large city that I drove right through without stopping. The kitten traveled well, and instead of keeping her in the box, she sat in the back window chasing raindrops, and sometimes she would sit on my shoulder or behind my neck. One thing the kitten was not and that was box trained, so…

Here are some pictures of the Capital, its very nice and well kept. In the summer this place is very crowded with torists.

So, its been an exciting few days! Thursday we tried to rent a car as we wanted to drive down the coast and check out a few places on the way. We visited three different places and got quotes for picking up the car in Portland and dropping it off in San Fran three days later. We decided to…

Automobile trip from San Antonio Texas to Vancouver Canada, across Canada and back to Texas. 6091 miles total!